It’s like in that unkind children’s story by Leo Tolstoy, where a boy was caught eating a plum without asking - he let slip that he spat out the pit. Ramzan Kadyrov, graphically condemning the murder of Natalya Estemirova, told reporters that “the search for criminals will be carried out not only through the official investigation, but also unofficially in accordance with the traditions of the Chechens.” In other words, the investigation will be conducted outside the framework of the law.

Russia loses tens of billions of euros due to lack of Foreign Ministry in the country I feel extremely uncomfortable as a prophet. I did not have time to reach the “hedgehog” my note “Russia lost a friend”, which said that for Russia the result of the Bulgarian elections is extremely deplorable and respond with great troubles, as confirmation was immediately struck. Bulgaria signed an agreement on Nabukko and actually buried the South Stream.

The so-called reset in relations between Russia and the United States cannot be carried out to the detriment of relations between the United States and Ukraine, US Vice President Joseph Biden said during a visit to Ukraine. “Another country or nation cannot have the right to veto the choice made independent state. Sovereign states have the right to make their own decisions about their foreign policy and choose their allies,” Biden said.

The resolution of the OSCE parliamentary Assembly, equalizing Stalinism and Nazism as two forms of totalitarianism, sharing Europe, caused a lot of noise and scandal, both chambers of the Russian Federal Assembly spoke with a sharp protest.

In society Cyril and Church July 22, 2009 Alexey Makarkin Soon the first six months of the Patriarchate of Cyril, the current Primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, will be fulfilled. You can summarize some results that turned out to be very contradictory. Let's start with the actions of the patriarch.

Before the Daily Journal had time to start voting on the question of what decision the political council of the long-suffering Right Cause party would make regarding its participation in the October elections to the Moscow City Duma, a message appeared that the party would not go to the elections at all. The meeting of the Political Council was preceded by a meeting of all three co-chairs of the party with the First Deputy Head of the Presidential Administration, Vyacheslav Surkov.

The statement made yesterday President Dmitry Medvedev at a meeting in Barvikh can be considered as a sensation, but by no means from the point of view of promoting religious items to school. Although Working meeting It was precisely the topic of introducing the foundations of religious culture into the school curriculum (once again!), And into the army - the Institute of Military clergy. Dmitry Medvedev supported both proposals. And even specific steps and terms are outlined.

Kafka has the famous parable “Trees in the Snow”. I quote from memory, as I remembered from a young age: “Because we are like trees in the snow. They lie, and it seems that come up, push - and they will move. But when you push them, you see that they are motionless, frozen, became dead as stone, and there is no power that could move them. But go - after all, it just seems. ” Only it seems ... In the snow. And rot! It seems to me a very long time that this dead bewood in Russia will not move.